Today, the first time for a long while, I am again in the need to make a scheduled shutdown of a physical ESXi server. Strangely it seems that this function disappeared out of the vSphere Client. I'm pretty sure, it worked with one of the first VirtualCenter versions.
But after a bit of research I found some hints about the vSphere CLI SDK. After a bit of testing I figured out how it works and it works just great.
Now I'm able to schedule a cronjob, launching the reboot or shutdown command fully automated. To be able to shutdown or reboot, you have to enter maintenance mode. The command looks like this:

Note, that for the --target_host you mustn't use the IP-address of the ESX/i server but the name used in the VirtualCenter configuration (as you see it in your vSphere Client).
Now we make the same for the shutdown command:

but if u want the vm to start automativly and to reboot the host you need to but the vm in maintence mode , thats not going to work is it.
can u add reference on how to restart the host and the vm automaticly aswell ?